This article interrogates the various ‘myths’ surrounding and informing ‘technology’, and turns to the ‘promise of monsters’ articulated by Donna Haraway, Mary Shelley, Angela Carter and Shelley Jackson in order to reconceive the boundaries and connections between technologies (in the broadest possible sense of the term) and selves.

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